The scope of the workshop
includes all important aspects of sensor data management, including
data acquisition, processing, and storage in remote
wireless networks; the handling of uncertain sensor data; and the
management of heterogeneous and sometimes sensitive sensor data in
databases. The
resource-constrained, lossy, noisy, distributed, and remote nature of
wireless sensor networks implies that traditional database techniques
often cannot
be applied without significant retooling. Challenges associated with
acquiring, processing, and archiving large-scale, heterogeneous sets of
live sensor
data also call for novel data management techniques. The inherently
incomplete and noisy nature of sensor data further calls for techniques
for data cleaning, inference, and
approximation. Finally, in many applications, the collecting of sensor
data raises important privacy and security concerns that
require new protection and anonymization techniques.

Topics of interest

We solicit papers that address important aspects of sensor data
management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

- challenges and techniques for new types of sensor data: e.g., RFID,
images and

videos, data from scientific and medical instruments

- integration of sensor data of different modalities and from different
sources

- personal, ubiquitous applications of sensor-based infrastructures

- techniques for secure sensor data collection and processing

- privacy protection techniques for sensor data

- collecting and publishing of large sensor data sets

- data stream management

- complex event detection and processing

- systems issues as they relate to the main topics of the workshop

- social and people-centric sensor networks using smartphones

- adhoc and mobile sensor networks

- experiences with real-world large-scale sensor applications

- semantic sensor web

Submitted papers must not have been published or currently be under
consideration for publication at another venue.

We are particularly interested in position papers, vision papers,
system designs, and papers that address new challenges for sensor data
management. Furthermore, this year we are also planning to organize a special
poster & demo session at DMSN.

Questions about the workshop scope should be directed to the program
committee chairs at sumann@microsoft.com.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: Mon, May 09, 2011

Paper submission: Mon, May 09, 2011

Notification: Mon, Jul 11, 2011

Camera-ready copy due: Mon, Aug 01, 2011

Workshop: Mon, Aug 29, 2011

Submission Instructions

All submissions will be handled electronically using the Conference
Management System made available to us by Microsoft Research. Detailed
submission instructions are posted on the DMSN'11 web site:
http://www.softnet.tuc.gr/dmsn11/submission.html

Full papers and poster/demo proposals in PDF format must be submitted
by May 9th, 2011. Papers should be in the ACM Proceedings camera-ready
format and must be at most 6 pages long for regular papers, and at most
2 pages long for poster/demo proposals.

Questions about the submission process should be directed to the
program co-chairs at: sumann@microsoft.com. Workshop format

Our goal is to bridge communities by bringing together interested
researchers from different communities to identify future research
challenges and opportunities. As such, the workshop will be organized in a way to
foster interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. We
expect to have longer than usual question-and-answer periods after paper
presentations, one keynote speech, and an interactive poster & demo
session.